The Green Corner is a learning environment for RCA students and staff which I started making in Spring 2025.

 

I developed this space for a number of reasons. Working in RCA Student Support, a department devoted to helping students through the emotional and practical challenges they may face during their University experience, fueled my ambition to create a space that sat outside the academic programme and took down barriers that prevent some students from creating. Secondly was a desire to simply improve the RCA environment. I have always found the Kensington campus to be an extremely ugly, inactive building for an art school. I really wanted to challenge this and try and improve our experience of the building as a creative vessel.

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The RCA did have a green space once - a conservatory, in the Darwin building which ran until the late 1980s. Hugh Carol's photographs in the RCA archive document a two tiered, enclosed green space, which was not only used by students during their studies, but as the work of MA Natural History Illustration students shows, was a home for a birds, fish and insects.​ The decision to remove the conservatorary at the end of the 1980s, feels strange and sad as we now face a climate crisis which has inevitably lead students and staff to address how art and design practice can help mitigate ecological destruction and improve environmental conditions.